A group of more than 100 Republican lawmakers is asking for an investigation into the amount of federal funding that has been awarded to health centers that also provide abortion, including Planned Parenthood. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), as well as House Pro-Life Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), led a letter to the Government Accountability...
Federal officials have approved a plan that would allow New York City to implement a $9 toll on cars that are driving into Manhattan as part of an effort to reduce traffic congestion and improve air quality. The city originally planned to charge $15, but axed those plans earlier this year. New York State Gov....
Political strategist Steve Bannon said former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) withdrawal from the attorney general nomination was a “casualty” for the Republican Party. “We took a casualty today. One of the best warriors we have, in all his imperfections — and he’s quite imperfect, as Donald Trump is imperfect, as Stephen K. Bannon is super...
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) suggested that his immediate praise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) was a way of trying to see the best in the situation. "I was raised in a way where I try to look at the glass as half-full," Polis said on...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday formally set a special election date to fill former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) vacant House seat in Florida’s first congressional district. The primary election for the district is slated to take place on Jan. 28, 2025 and the district’s general election will take place on April 1, 2025....
President-elect Trump's ill-fated nomination of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to run the Justice Department marked an early sign of his potential limits in moving his nominees and dealing with Senate Republicans, giving him less wiggle room to get his Cabinet in place. Riding high off his electoral win earlier this month, Trump tapped Gaetz to...
President-elect Trump has spent recent days in meetings with potential picks to be his Treasury secretary but so far a final decision is hanging in the balance. Marc Rowan, Apollo Global Management co-founder, Kevin Warsh, a former member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and Scott Bessent, Key Square Group founder, all traveled to...
President-elect Trump will take office just as Iran has the potential to become the world’s 10th nuclear-armed state, and it’s not clear if either side knows how it will approach the other.
In response to the Biden administration loosening key immigration restrictions, New York City Mayor Eric Adams sounded off on the federal government, saying that Americans are "fed up with our broken immigration system."